Russia - Order of Saint Andrew, founded in 1698, knight's pl - Lot 946

Russia - Order of Saint Andrew, founded in 1698, knight's plate attributed to King Miguel of Portugal. Embroidery in the form of an eight-pointed star, the rays alternating between embossed silver bordered with cannetille and silver sequins linked by a silver chenille, each point finished with a silver thread loop, the center in several parts, the legend embroidered in gold on a sky-blue silk background, the leaves of the laurel wreath embroidered in green silk thread, outlined and knotted in gold, the double-headed eagle in black thread on an orange silk ground, the chest charged with a cross of Saint Andrew in gold cannetille, the wreaths in gold thread, the paper-lined back bearing the attribution in ink "Russia S. Andre D Miguel 11 RN". 87x86mm Russia, first third of the 19th century. TTB to SUP Provenance: Miguel I, King of Portugal (1802-1866). Third son of King Joao VI, he successively bore the titles of Infant of Portugal, Prince-Regent of Portugal and King of Portugal. Following the Portuguese succession crisis and the ensuing civil war, he reigned from 1828 to 1834, having ousted from the throne his niece Queen Marie II, daughter of her brother Emperor Pedro I of Brazil. He ended his life in exile, bearing the title of Duke of Bragança. He was named Knight of the Order of Saint Andrew on November 24, 1823, the same day as his father Joao VI. See the plaque of the Order of St. Stephen of Hungary, also attributed to him under number 532. Related work: a similar plaque is in the Hermitage Museum (Lidia I. Dobrovolskaya, Magdalina A. Dobrovolskaya, Russian Orders of the 18th to Early 20th Centuries, The State Hermitage Publishers, St. Petersburg, 2024, no. 39, p. 119).